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Contents List of Tables Preface 1 Crisis and Interdependence in Contemporary World Politics Global Insecurity A Brief Report on the State of the Planet From Interdependence to Globalization Trend Line 1: The New Structure of World Affairs Trend Line 2: Democratization's Rise and Fall Case Study 1: 9/11 and the War on Terror 2 Realism and Corporate Globalism in Theory and Practice The Realist Perspective Corporate Globalism and the World Economy Rivals or Partners? Case Study 1: Postwar Planning for the "American Century" Case Study 2: Capitalist Dominoes-The Mexican and Asian Financial Crises Case Study 3: Another American Century? The Invasion of Iraq 3 World Politics in Global-Humanist Perspective The Search for a Third Way Values, Methods, Measurements, Objectives Human Security and Common Security Case Study 1: The US-Soviet Arms Race During the Cold War Case Study 2: North Korea, Iran, and Weapons of Mass Destruction 4 The Third World and the Fourth: Human Rights, Environmental Decline, and Underdevelopment Defining the "Third World" A Third World Country Profile Case Studies of Crisis and Renewal: South Africa; South Korea; Brazil; Failing and Recovering States: Haiti, Venezuela, Bolivia 5 The United States and China Alone at the Top: The Arms Race After the Cold War The United States China's Rise: Revolution and Transformation US-China Relations: Containment or Engagement? 6 Europe, Russia, and Japan in a Multipolar World The New Meaning of Power Toward a United Europe The Changed Strategic Picture Russia: The Rocky Road to Democracy and Development Japan's Quest for Normalcy 7 In the Human Interest: An Agenda for Transforming World Politics Lessons for the Future Thinking Globally The Prospects for Humanity Notes Bibliography Index About the Book Tables 1.1 The Reshaping of World Politics 1.2 UN Peacekeeping Operations (2005) 2.1 Alternative Values 2.2 The Fifty Largest Transnational Businesses (2004) 3.1 Worldwide Nuclear Arsenals (2006) 4.1 Distribution of World Income Among People 4.2 Trends in Income Poverty by Region, 1981-2001 4.3 Income Distribution in the Third World 5.1 Major Post-Cold War and Related Earlier International Treaties Governing Weapons of Mass Destruction 5.2 Known Nuclear Tests of the Declared Nuclear Powers, 1945-2006
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
International relations.
International economic relations.
World politics -- 1989-.